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Callahan County

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Map of Callahan County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. The old and new centers of Callahan County are marked on map. Asylum Lands are also marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).

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Texas General Land Office

The Texas General Land Office contributes items from their Historic County Map Collection, ca. 1838-1939 ( 926 maps), Lorenzo de Zavala Online (13 items), and the O. Henry Collection (11 items). The historic county maps are cadastral (land ownership) maps, showing original surveys, usually made by virtue of a land grant, within a particular county in Texas. In Lorenzo de Zavala Online, see the Expediente of de Zavala's 1829 colonization contract, as well as correspondence to or from Jose Angel Navarro, Jose Domingo Ugartechea, Jose Maria Falcon, Martin Perfecto de Cos, Stephen F. Austin, Manuel de Mier y Teran, and Ramon Musquiz. As part of the O. Henry Collection, the General Land Office contributes maps drawn and signed by O. Henry, administrative records, newspaper clippings, a written account, and a land grant records.

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Callahan County

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Map of Callahan County. That portion on the water of the Colorado River, Travis, the balance, East of the line represented, Milam, and West of it, Bexar Land District

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Map of Callahan County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. The old and new centers of Callahan County are marked on map. Asylum Lands are also marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).

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GLO Historic County Maps

The Texas General Land Office contributes Historic County Maps from its earliest collections. The maps are cadastral maps, showing original surveys, usually made by virtue of a land grant within a particular county in Texas. Formats represented include manuscripts, lithographs, some early photographs, and blueprints/bluelines. The scale is generally 1 inch to 4000 varas. Most of the maps were compiled and drawn by draftsmen at the GLO, and most are manuscript maps.